An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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IBN ALĪ AL MAUSILĪ, 'Ammār

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The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.

Barcelona: Laboratorios del Norte Espagna, 1937.

Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Syringe, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Islamic or Arab Medicine, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Ocular Surgery & Procedures › Cataract